We are not a registered yellow fever centre.
Please note: Vaccines ideally need to be given at least 8–12 weeks before departure if possible. Vaccines need time to take effect and some may require a course over several weeks.
Please contact the Practice for a travel risk assessment form. This must be completed and returned at least 8-12 weeks before your travel date. This is to allow time to review your immunisation history and book a telephone travel appointment with one of our travel-trained Nurses.
Our Admin team will send you a pre-travel risk assessment form as a link to your mobile. If you do not have a mobile number our team can send the form to your email or you can arrange to collect a paper copy from Reception
Once a completed travel questionnaire has been received, our Admin team will contact you to book a telephone travel appointment to discuss risk at the destination, preventive risk advice including both vaccine and non vaccine preventable diseases, malaria prevention advice and any contraindications to giving the vaccine .
If you are travelling in less than 8 weeks or we have no available appointments, we recommend you make an appointment at a private travel clinic for your travel risk assessment, advice and vaccinations. This is to ensure that any vaccines you need to receive can take effect and allow sufficient time to produce antibodies against diseases from vaccination.
Local Travel Clinics
St Peters Travel Clinic – Oxford Street, Brighton Tel: 01273 606636
City Doc (formerly Sussex Travel Clinic in Hove) is a private travel vaccination clinic that can offer last minute and walk in appointments as well as an easy online and telephone appointments system for all your travel vaccination requirements. You can visit them here.
Vaccines
Not all travel vaccinations are included in the services provided by the NHS and you will have to be seen at a private Travel Clinic
The following travel vaccines are available free on the NHS
- polio (given as a combined diphtheria/tetanus/polio jab)
- typhoid
- hepatitis A
- cholera*
These vaccines are free because they protect against diseases thought to represent the greatest risk to public health if they were brought into the country.
*PLEASE NOTE: Due to a national stock shortage we are currently not able to order this vaccine. If this vaccine is required for your travel we advise you contact a private Travel Clinic
Hepatitis immunisation
Immunisation against infectious Hepatitis A is available via the NHS in connection with travel abroad.
Hepatitis B is not routinely available free of charge for travel therefore, if you require this vaccine prior to travelling, we advise that you make an appointment at a private travel clinic
Excess quantities of regular repeat prescriptions
Under NHS legislation, the NHS ceases to have responsibility for people when they leave the United Kingdom. However, to ensure good patient care the following guidance is offered. People travelling within Europe should be advised to carry a General Health Insurance Card, known as a GHIC.
Medication required for a pre-existing condition should be provided in sufficient quantity to cover the journey and to allow the patient to obtain medical attention abroad. If the patient is returning within the timescale of their usual prescription, then this should be issued (the maximum duration of a prescription is recommended by the Care Trust to be two months, although it is recognised that prescription quantities are sometimes greater than this). Patients are entitled to carry prescribed medicines, even if originally classed as controlled drugs, for example, morphine sulphate tablets.
For longer visits abroad, the patient should be advised to register with a local doctor for continuing medication (this may need to be paid for by the patient).
General practitioners are not responsible for prescriptions of items required for conditions which may arise while travelling, for example travel sickness or diarrhoea. Patients should be advised to purchase these items from community pharmacies prior to travel.
Useful links
NHS Overview – Travel Vaccinations
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
International Society of Travel Medicine
Health Advice for the Diabetic